Stanislav Strumilin

Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin.

Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin (Strumillo-Petrashkevich) (Template:Lang-ru; 29 January 1877, Dashkovtsy, Podolia Governorate – 25 January 1974, Moscow) was a Soviet economist and statistician. He played a leading role in the analysis of the planned economy of the Soviet type, including modeling, development of the five year plans and calculation of national income. His particular contributions include the "Strumilin index", a measure of labor productivity, and the "norm coefficient", relating to analysis of investment activity.

Biography

Born into an impoverished noble family of Strumillo-Petrashkevich, descended from Marshal of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Stanislav Petrashkovich Stromila. Strumilin joined the revolutionary movement in 1897 and joined the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class. Strumilin became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1899 and joined its Menshevik faction.

After the October Revolution he worked as the head of the Statistics Department of the Petrograd Regional Commissariat of Labor and from 1919 head of the statistics All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. 1921 - 1937  - at the State Planning Commission. In the 30s, Deputy Chairman of the USSR State Planning Committee , member of the Presidium. In 1932-1934 he was deputy head of the Central Directorate of National Economic Accounting (TSUNKHU

He graduated from Petrograd Polytechnical Institute in 1914. Until 1917 he worked as a socialist activist. After the October Revolution he worked on setting up the Soviet planned economy while he was appointed to a professorship in economics at the Moscow State University. In 1931 he became a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Strumilin's educational background was in statistics.

In the sixties he gained an international reputation in the field of the economics of education following the publication of "The economics of education in the USSR" by UNESCO

Works

• "Bogatsvo i Trud" (Wealth and Labor) (1905)
• "Problemikiy Ekonomikiy Truda" (Problems of the Economics of Labor) (1925)
• "Otcherkiy Sovetskoy Ekonomikiy" (Essays on the Soviet Economy) (1928)
• "Promiyshlenniy Perevorot v Rossiy" (The Industrial Revolution in Russia) (1944)
• "The Time Factor in Capital Investment Projects" (published in 1946 in USSR, in 1951 published in English by International Economic Association)
• "Istoriya Chernoi Metalurgii v SSSR” (The history of metallurgical industry in USSR) (1954)
• "The economics of education in the USSR" (1962)

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20110615194812/http://econc10.bu.edu/economic_systems/Theory/Marxism/Soviet/strumilin.htm
• https://web.archive.org/web/20071026033537/http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/soviet.htm
• Eason, Warren W. (1 January 1950). "On Strumilin's Model". Soviet Studies. 1 (4): 334–342. doi:10.1080/09668135008409757. JSTOR 148843.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070128182124/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3955/is_n7_v47/ai_17792339
• "THE RURAL URBAN WAGE GAP IN THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF RUSSIA, 1885-1913" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-07-20. Retrieved 2006-09-18. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)